To attend
Tickets to the RHS Alumni Association’s annual homecoming week awards luncheon are $30 each and are available at CTB Financial Center, located at 1511 N. Trenton St. in Ruston, or by calling Pat Tippet at 255-7750 or emailing her at pktippitt@yahoo.com. The honorees will be recognized at the luncheon, which is set for 11:30 a.m. Oct. 14 at Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant.

Three Ruston High School teachers and four graduates will be named the RHS Alumni Association’s 2011 distinguished educators and alumni on Oct. 14.

This year’s Distinguished Educators are current RHS mathematics teacher Elaine Johnson, retired history teacher and coach Norris “Bud” Alexander, and the late history teacher and vice principal Morgan Peoples.

Named Distinguished Alumni are Zane Skinner, Robert Lewis and Duddy Burkhalter Garrett.

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Maj. Stephen Williams, spokesman for the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office, said a prank call/text message began circulating this week.

Williams said the victim initially receives a text message asking them to call a phone number. When that number is called, the caller hears a message saying the person has missed jury duty and will be subject to a $500 fine or 30 days in jail.
Williams said if residents listen until the end, it is clear that it is a hoax.

With Lincoln Parish Police Jurors footing the bill for the parish’s Christmas party this year, funds are coming up a little short.

In previous years, jurors also sought contributions from local businesses to help pay for the large celebration, which includes food prepared for about 170 attendees made up of parish employees, their guests and police jurors.

Louisiana Tech has announced the names of students on its summer quarter President’s and Dean’s honor lists.

Students whose names are followed by an asterisk earned recognition as members of the President’s Honor List. That distinction signifies achievement of at least a 3.8 academic grade point average on a minimum of nine semester hours completed (100-level or higher), with no grade lower than a B.